The Craft of Intelligence

This classic of spycraft is based on Dulles's incomparable experience as a diplomat, international lawyer, and America's premier intelligence officer. Dulles was a high-ranking officer of the CIA's predecessor - the Office of Strategic Services - and served eight years as director of the newly created CIA. In The Craft of Intelligence, Dulles reveals how intelligence is collected and processed, and how the results contribute to the formation of national policy On the Military Intelligence Bracnh History Reading List 2012.

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Página 7An instance where a certain amount of publicity was helpful in the collection of
intelligence occurred during World ... withholding from a potential enemy all
useful information about secret intelligence operations or personnel engaged in
them.

Página 37No great battles were won or lost or evaded because of superior intelligence. Intelligence operations were limited for the most part to more or less localized
and temporary targets. As one writer has put it, "There was probably more
espionage ...

Página 42Harbor attack, that we began to develop, side by side with our military intelligence organizations, an agency for secret intelligence collection and operations. As I mentioned earlier, the origin of this agency was a summons by
President ...

Review: The Craft of Intelligence: America's Legendary Spy Master on the Fundamentals of Intelligence Gathering for a Free World

Crítica de los usuarios - Radu - Goodreads

A sort of a crash course in basic intelligence craft. Scarry how American establishment saw communists and cold war ..Leer comentario completo

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Crítica de los usuarios - mdubois - LibraryThing

A good historical overview of the CIA. Could be used as a good primer for intelligence gathering with specific descriptions and examples of various types of intel gathering - espionage, surveillance, etc. Not as updated for the 2000's though as expected. Relies heavily on Soviet-era examples.Leer comentario completo